HDR Light Studio is a unique blend of adjustable light sources, a robust interactive lighting preview, a ‘point and click’ light positioning system and image based lighting. The result is an intuitive lighting approach that empowers 3D artists to express their lighting vision with ease and light their shots in record time.

Escape Technology are delighted to announce a new funding initiative for the UK VFX community.

As part of their film skills strategy, Creative Skillset currently have development funding available for VFX facilities to train between 3-10 members of staff and have access to up to £8,000 of funding per successful application. This exciting initiative is funded by the National Lottery via the BFI.

Please note that applications close next Thursday, on the 18th of July; so if you have any interest please do act quickly as there isn’t much time left!

The opportunity is for VFX facilities which will deliver training for between 3-10 junior staff members, either at their place of work, off-site or on-line. The training should aim to meet the needs of the individual as well as meet the immediate needs of the company and enable it to meet short to medium term business goals.

Last night at Audi City, Piccadilly we hosted our very first Post NAB Showcase in partnership with Adobe, Autodesk, HP and NVIDIA. We had a huge turnout and the event was an incredible success, with Adobe showcasing the latest technology from Adobe CC and Autodesk presenting the benefits of Autodesk 2014 Entertainment Creation Suites. All demonstrations were made using top of the line HP Z Series workstations powered by the latest NVIDIA Quadro, Tesla and Maximus compute technologies.

Autodesk have now announced that their Media and Entertainment Creation Suites 2014 are released and ready to be shipped! The Entertainment Creation Suites 2014 offer an array of specialised creative toolsets integrated into a cohesive solution through single-step interoperability workflows.

Fusion-io has announced at NAB that the ioFX workstation acceleration platform will be available with 1.6 TB of capacity. The Fusion ioFX memory tier with its high capacity is perfect for computer assisted design, 4K and stereoscopic production, video editing as well as DI and colour grading.

Tweak Software fans have been waiting on the edge of their seats for the newest release of RV and the wait is almost over! Tweak has now released RV 4.0 into Beta testing with a whole host of new features.

As the UK exclusive reseller for The Foundry we are pleased to announce that MARI 2.0 is now available. Originally designed to handle complex, high-resolution textures, MARI boasts a rich feature set and responsiveness that challenges even the most sophisticated 2D paint systems.